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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Rain Machine Track Premiere PR

For Immediate Release

Rain Machine to Premiere Song on Stereogum Today

A brand new song entitled "Smiling Black Faces" from Kyp Malone's anticipated Rain Machine album will debut at Stereogum on 09/01. Known as singer and guitarist for celebrated genre defying band TV on the Radio, with Rain Machine, Malone has constructed an album of musically adventuresome and affecting songs. Malone played nearly all the instruments on Rain Machine and the record was produced by Ian Brennan (Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Jonathan Richman, Lucinda Williams).

While the first song revealed off the album "Give Blood" was a fuzzed out garage rock workout, the second to debut, "Smiling Black Faces" is a soulful and building piece of gospel infused guitar rock with Malone offering up some truly remarkable lyrical imagery, referencing "bodies strung like tanning hides," and the headline-grabbing murder of Sean Bell by off-duty New York police. Malone says the freedom of writing on his own allowed him to venture further. "If I'm writing with a group of people or another person, even if I wrote the song, I know it may be attributed to someone else," he says. "It's reflective of something more than yourself, so I may touch on something more politely. But there's a different freedom that comes with doing something by yourself, and I think this album reflects that."